Band 96
Liberating the Liberated Early Saiva Tantric Death Rites
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Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens
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Erscheinungsdatum
19.03.2019
Herausgeber
Nina MirnigVerlag
Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der WissenschaftenSeitenzahl
365 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
4164 KB
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9783700184751
This volume examines the formation and development of Saiva tantric funerary practices (antye¿¿i) and rituals of post-mortem ancestor worship (sraddha) as preserved in the earliest extant strata of textual sources. These tantric scriptures and ritual manuals of the Saiva Siddhanta cover a period from about the 5th to the 12th century CE. A close analysis of individual texts shows how the incorporation of death rites into the tantric repertoire was directly linked to the tradition's development from once focused on private worship and limited to ascetics living outside society to a dominant religion throughout the Indic world. A focal point of the study is how, in this process, Saiva ritual specialists catered to initiates who were established in the brahmanical householder society, with their death rites essentially coming to serve as the model for Saiva equivalents. To make these rites more meaningful in terms of Saiva doctrine, cremation and post-mortem ancestor worship were redefined as a means for liberating the deceased person's soul, this through its funerary initiation and subsequent worship in manifestations of increasingly potent forms of Siva.
The book first introduces the socio-historical context of early Saivism, and then in five chapters traces the development of Saiva funerary rites in the available text sources, examining also the extent to which Saiva propagators were willing to tolerate doctrinal compromises to be able to include a wider clientele. The appendices contain editions and annotated translations of the passages on cremation and post-mortem ancestor worship from the pre-9th century tantric scriptures Svayambhuvasutrasägraha 22.9-20, Sarvajñanottara 12 and 13, and Kiräa 60 and 61, as well as the chapters on cremation and post-mortem ancestor worship in the 12th-century South-Indian ritual manual Jñanaratnavali.
The book first introduces the socio-historical context of early Saivism, and then in five chapters traces the development of Saiva funerary rites in the available text sources, examining also the extent to which Saiva propagators were willing to tolerate doctrinal compromises to be able to include a wider clientele. The appendices contain editions and annotated translations of the passages on cremation and post-mortem ancestor worship from the pre-9th century tantric scriptures Svayambhuvasutrasägraha 22.9-20, Sarvajñanottara 12 and 13, and Kiräa 60 and 61, as well as the chapters on cremation and post-mortem ancestor worship in the 12th-century South-Indian ritual manual Jñanaratnavali.
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